Show 4 K 71 0 0 X 4 MV V i F ov R 3 Z D I 1 k if I 1 I 1 N 4 ra B alq 0 D tor to r okli SA S A 0 14 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 11 dispatches recently chronicled the death in japan of dr D 10 5 floyt who wib wn s on ids hs way lieme from the philippines where lie he had been revisiting the scenes of his career fress as chief surgeon of the united stes states army there during the insurrection taj th brief mention which these dispatches made of his 0 earlier career in the N yest gave only a slight intimation of 0 f the thrilling stories stores which lio lie co could jl 0 tell telf of tile the old lays wh when en there wnm wag a frontier in america fortunately however for a posterity of americans who ban never learn enough of those epic ep 1 c lays clays lie left belld jilin a record of ills his part par in 1 1 tire tile winning of the t ie west vest ll 11 and in the book A frontier doctor published recently by tuo the houghton II cont company bontly ly the there reels la additional proof of the fact that arf frontier nt leil history iwas made chite as aa much by lew leso but more indre tin lin octant personages than the th e long haired buck maln clad claa mils bills and dicks and sams of lime dime novel fame f before ills death doctor hoyt calmed caged thel unique distinction of being tile the only man mail alive who had had dinner with two characters who come nearest being tile the american robin hood jesse james arid and bily billy the kid but ills hla claim clafin to fame does not rest alone on this distinction a is which to some might be a doubtful one indeed that was but a 0 minor Inci flent in tile the career of this frontier doctora doctor 4 but bui it Is ludica nilca tive live ortho of the wealth of experience that was ills his for lio ha was a rohneer tn in more senses than one lle he was tho the son of a pioneer and sant a pioneer boyhood hoodson on a farm near what Is now the city of st paul meliin ile ho served its as d n rodman rod Tian in one of the lp pioneer loneer sury surveying eying part parties s along the northern fron was the doctor to locate and practice his profession in the texas panhandle lie ile wasa wag a passenger odthe first stage czach coach to run brorn froma bismarck Ris marck N D 0 o deadwood Dead Dad S D lie ile xa opened the first anig store tn in bernalillo in al n typical sout southwestern liNy C stern fro jer town lie he was the 61 only chief surgeon wounded y on the battlefield in fit tile the spanish iam i am american irlen n war tind and he be was the first 1 person to utilize 0 chinese coolies as aa litter bearers in the united states army around that ahat framework of pioneering achieve ments can be built a life astery which symbolizes pretty well the history lil story of america duricr the last years few passages tn in the writing of 0 today elther either fact sr fiction have up more indre adequately or more dramatically the nil laIng 0 transformation of aC country from a rny liei to it a modern highly civilized civilised civili sed community than the opening paragraphs of A frontier doctor which read as follows s during state fair week tn in Sep september fember 1827 1927 1 I visited a eld nt at the southeast somerset orn erot larpenteur ana an Aven uehl st fit paul minnesota ilano were wera humming through the tha ala avin in every direction when suddenly a y sung dropped from one as it passed over a parachute U to unfolded and n id she ahde a graceful landing but a few ow paces frown from tho the vidt pot where I 1 first appeared on the sarien of life in 1854 this flying neld field was a 0 typical minnesota farm arm owned by rny rily father lorenzo floyt who had arrived in minnesota ns as a pioneer in our farin then cien was practically a self sufficing unit evno only did we raise all ou own 1 including ing a coffee substitute composed of several varieties 0 of f Q parched ce celaa reeLs but we even provid til 0 out j f 0 dmn n t k clothing by raising and shear shearing in ig our own sheep carding the wool anil and it II and on our a own loom making our own cloth ft r 1 there were no A rali roads in il st paul paulin in those thop early lays AU all our transportation was waa by stage or steamboat two of my uncles were iri vermen ard one of my pleasures was driving down to th the levee at the tha foot of jackson street to meet the boats coming upriver up river from rom new ew orleans sometimes as tny iny father and I 1 sat in the buggy the un Q loading of tae boat yary vry often a fine looking 1 l ie a ur ad yo ing iman would mould come over ovar and ahat with h us th J hl il then tn as a freight clerk at a forty gilve dollars ft a math camany years later when by his remarkable fore 0 and acumen he ha had risen to be one of the tha C of the tha country the head c of the tha great woltan hn halfway unas liras became chic surgeon of all CD ct y young foyta ieather was not cot able to provide 1 a funds for a college education so the iny set out 0 ut 0 to wl altine tine ne lor or himsl himself if ills his first inc inclination li nailon pasq was to become a civil engl ncr rland and his bis fant job was with a purveying amri fecat out by the st I 1 paul p and pacific railroad rull road in 1873 lie secured a place with the government expedition which was sent out jo fo survey tho the boundary loun dary line between the united states rind and canada from the te lake of the woods west west to ane foothills of the roc jev the Q ii illary escort for tills thle party nars wa a compney of infantry andazo troops of aliese y A tiffi cavill cavelry ry commanded by bt captains veir bcd nr d elgh ace agh three henrs alears IR iatter ter doctor to td loarn loam of the derith of t captala la tit nt the cl of the little big marn and to hear he ar thaia A borse 0 which louus q hoyt admire 0 sri so much during this surveying was tile the sole 6 alvor of custers command which rode fodo lulu that valley talley af pf death deam after a serica ser les adventures avith this party include Inc ludl averal tei attacks by in deans and narrow campes ca carok death in bath 0 0 prairie artres wrin ans young joung hoyt returned to bw acy home tt to a ductor uter after tween tw fen his of study in that vre ajo a 1 U 0 c ra ii sa 1 a Q yass r 7 rp P 51 l OL G F ja it r 0 T T vii g tiie ki ca he beyan began looking around for some live tow in 0 which to start hla his practice ills his selection w was as in ili tl alo black hills which was at that time 1877 at its heyday ns as it gold camp butin deadwood men did noodle of lin lingering ge ring they usually died quickly arid and with their boots on so it did not talce take the young doctor long to decide that offered more opportunities than doctoring accordingly lie he tried ills hla hand at that but after a short time tired of it and drifted gottli mexico arriving at fort sumner gumner the young doctors first patient was william maxell san son of lucien B D maxwell of the maxwell land grant fame faine who was suffering dufferin suf ferin fronia case caas of smallpox and whom lie he was vms unable to save further down tho the pecos valley lie he made tile the acquaintance 0 of f john Clu tile the cattle ew mexico M famous for ills his part in the lincoln county war which sta started eted hilly billy the kid on the road to notoriety to young floyt the cattle king pid gild doc over yonder Is of a bg country cou try full of 1 I nn an epidemic of smallpox 2 and no doctor theres the place youre I 1 looking oo 00 il n for so to the panhandle the young doctor wen weep 11 and began practicing tn in Tac cosa one of tile the ff est of the wild cow towns tonson jn tn the old days put but he soon found that prophecy wa was s too optimistic tile the smallpox c was soon so on over the panhandle wils was not full of people a an there was little for him to j do so the next inar dent in ili ills career was securing work ns as a cowboy under W V 0 nill moore former but now the superintendent of the LX IX ranch hiie senior foraman fors nian of tile tho LX was wa an all even more famous character Cli charles arles A 91 rIngo later noted aj ad a peace officer of licer detective and author after a short cArver ci 08 a coAr chaboy boy boyt returned io f the practice of ills hla profession in tascosa and in the full fall of 1878 he li i madene niad eie acquaintance of nilly tile the kid who just then ii the leadership of tie the gang which was wag so soon to spread serend a i trail of red across the southwest rf of this ilila doctor hoyt writes 0 billy bonney was then eighteen years old a handsome youth elih smooth face wavy brown h har ar an athie tip end and fleure figure and cl clear ear blue eyes that could look one one through through find through 9 n unless aary a g r y he always seemed to have a alc plc aa B ant x p en with a ready smile ills hta head was wap well shaped his hla fetA eturea tires regular his nose aquiline hla his most notices ible characteristic a slight projection broj ec of 0 his two upper front teeth i nilly wall waa an ex expert ert at moat western sports ind and dissipations with the he exception of 0 drinking much bluch hs hrs been published of his e 0 its during drinking pouts bouts but it Is my ap ti to n djey er are mostly fiction A 4 never enaw of his taking 1 in g a drink ot of all the th time lie he was in the panhandle to tell the truth this me fact helped to make nn nuo friendly with the outlaw tor for I 1 was a teetotaler tal r myself rey red tn in christian principles I 1 had never touched liquor 0 Redoubt as aa was wag tills this notorious outlaw here aboe was one IV tit which the young fron her r doctor excelled him lie tells of it n as follo follows fol lowR wj on a b moonlight night a balle baile danced dance was tl progress ProK gr ogress reia at the horto boe of Ro bronero rom nero e r rj hoghey and I 1 11 p p a oth to enjoy t NOT irmand inca incidentally dit rolled a e r oils the one hundred yards in width tj aft store orp opposite osite recurring Relur ring I 1 challenged the kid hid to a footracer footrace foo trace 1 e to y the tie dancer hall J T found he could run much faster as ter than the sailor a local sprinter whom hoyt had defeated im a race lace a orno aline previously but I 1 led lad him allethe alle way A aa we v neared the door i slacked blacked up while jubile D k t po t on at full ape speed e a through the door mexican adobe houses bouses for some renson have a threshold about a toot foot agh ind and as an the kd flow flaw tp through rough the heel att p or of hip cw cowboy 7 boots boo t s 4 on oft it landing landl g jit him at hlll ila th e boor la in the middle of th abir jav buicker tu icker span han a h hit bis boly body WAS ed by is four pals paia back to back with a colla forty fany 1 birto in edict halid lidd and ready for the aids tin orl dional branc cs r waa wa to hem a an indicant lodi Indi catt callon n of inh BK awn gr 1 F s nd na their her 1 i e ot of lzean s johw d B e esli 0 fv vr r A bilica bill of ale ej e J leom from buy clency of Us its kind how or where puns were concealed was waa never quite understood but their own eis era all registered rha chagrin grIp when they learned them uie were barr barred barreyat edat at all witto future 0 romero balles the acquaintance between tile cie young outlaw ad the young joung doctor ripened into friendship ola ofa sort eort and hoyt won the regard of the kid by presenting to him a ladles gold watch which lie he hind von mm in wa a apke r ahme game and which the outlaw wished alb p give to ills hla Alex mexican lead sweetheart att inched cached to this watch was a long iong chain of braided hair and in tile the only known photograph of the kid two strands of ams tills chain can all be plainly seen crossing creasing his shirt front the result resul V of this gift was a somewhat surprising one ana when hot decided to leave the panhandler Panhandle 1 and go to las vegas nr billy the kid iid presented him with his favorit favorite h horse 0 arse dandy dick and in order to 1 protect hoyt in ans lails ownership wis yris ever questioned also wrote out anc gave to 0 o liffin hlin a formal bill of sale this bill of snip sale which doctora floyt preserved to the day of ills his deal Is knoof uno of the specimens of billy abe th kids handwriting tn in existence 0 0 at that time tile the origin of a fine arabian and well known locally as a race borse was a mystery the kid never would tell where begot him although lie he did admit that thac theres a artory connected with him years later boctor floyt through correspondence with charles A arid and james daniea brady court coilet interpreter tit nt car N M N learned that the horse had once been owned by major murphy one of the leading lc in the lincoln dounty war who had bad pre canted it to sheriff william I 1 brady of lincoln county brady was wag riding dand dick when lie he was killed by afi the kid kedl I 1 0 when hoyt arrived in ras las vegas he found that boom town at the end of steel on the hiie shirla fe railroad was then building through new mexico was full of doctors anxious to se cur money tove I 1 J medical edical in studies lie put aulde his ecru scruples jiles against gambling and threw ft 0 in with v two men inen in opening a a faro game but bat tit at ho he end of a mouth all three th rep were broke md and hoyt next nest took tonj 6 job as a bartender in a hotel while engri engaged ged in occupation lie had pi pt jart part in the historic dinner the rloand jesse james u 0 near las vegas was A famous hot aprin sprin springs gs and a hotel kotc noted 1 throughout tile the country for lie dinners sundays always abw s drew a big crowd there 11 artes arites ijoyi out ono one sunday and found at ri r corner comer table a ath e the only vacant bentin the room glancing at th ethree guests already vre re iwas perfectly amazed to recognize athe on my mr laftera leftt aa villy billy the kid urbane and amitin alever ae ever we shook handt hands but bj t neither mentioned mention td a name 10 ft 3 we were chatting away of old zinies imea in dexta a as if K we are re to couple of cowboy Ir friends lends vOlie mar I an nos no left made a comment on conr torne thing 1 lie be eald it whereupon bonney said Illo hoyt illoyd yi meet my friend mr howard from tennessee tha nian man had nearly finished his meal i aati down and soon retired mr howard had noticeable noti reable characteristics ire he had baa via 0 steely nathely bine eyes with a pecullar peculiar blink and of a finger op on Ms left hand was sUle I 1 mentally ta TV classed olm film as A a railroad man he P roved to t be congenial aras ft a good talker had evidently travel rt quita ji a bit and the meal passed pleasantly after C dinner we separated fd billy taking fee to bis roo room tn aate tl e ra re e oft or me to 1 Bc BV recy Crecy on one of af p py pay itle he mr how w ard r d wa was no other man them thap and train rubbe jesse jamec I 1 ww waa skeptical but billy soon toe mg 1 ittai vaa true 0 sons other ether unwritten history which doctor floyt reveals for the first time la in his book la in rg rf ardin abig is incident jt jesse jessa ja james me 9 lal e nil the gldnn 6 olter 40 join forces forcel boft billy had bad no di ciroto roto engage in in tan or or train rhe ry tattle rustling and norae horae stealing aj in I 1 alft Q av ti dive diversion aslon more than that SoT oo 00 afna tortes s ayr ian athe the outlaw would I 1 take mis him MOT frn fram m te e agnet tit at fort simnet hs ha hart and for thee reasons s iurna n jesse james jamee offer it res fl T J imagination indeed in deed u ahk th po p 0 o a 6 fp tits ills if abeso two redoubtable 0 ottawa 04 Z 4 yi ces I 1 M D 0 0 Q 0 0 0 c Q |